January Sunrise 2

Wow! This is very striking and unusual. The colors are very good, and the birds add a great twist, although bottom 1/3 seems to detract. Regards, Jud

Beautiful colors. I love how the birds look like they are flying right at you.

An outstanding picture.

Great color and action. I would crop or burn in the bottem 15 percent or so.

To me this image is worth a 3 because its bottom half in under-exposed and much too busy, but as you said I probably don't understand anything about aesthetics, I have now deleted my rating.

 

I agree with Jud and Blind: the bottom is not helping, it's too busy. If a scrint is all you're interested in, the above is a suggestion, but I had to cheat to get it. If the bottom portion were bird free, then I wouldn't mind the full 35mm format. The colors are gorgeous.

Sorry Doug, I don't think your crop helps. The colors are too bogus for my taste, I realize that they were pumped up intentionally, but I still don't llike them. The crooked horizon is fixable, but at this time, it's still crooked. Just too many birds at the top as well as the bottom. Cropping of the bottom doesn't fix the top where they are all touching. If they were separated, it would make it much more interesting. Several silhouettes are also cut off in the right hand side of the frame. The similar image that was deleted was much stronger than this one.

oh well. I was just trying to help. I wonder why the other scrint was deleted then? ??

Did you just make up the word "scrint"? I can't find it in a dictionary anywhere.

Couple of weeks ago, in a POW thread Marc suggested we quit calling them "prints" since most of them were/are/will be never on paper, so I came back with "SCReen prINT" or scrint. taa daa!

I like the shot just as it is.